The Parent Teacher Home Visit Model

Parent Teacher Home Visits trains K-12 teachers and staff to make a meaningful connection with the families of their students, starting with a voluntary home visit. There are numerous models of home visits; ours was honed from years of deep listening—to families and educators through several years of conversations, focus groups, and pilots. At the heart of the PTHV model is a set of core practices we call the five non-negotiables. This means all implementations of Parent Teacher Home Visits take local context into account, but they observe these core practices with fidelity. Above all, our visits are not drop-ins, surprises, gotchas, wellness checks, or other measures that can result in punitive measures being taken. That they are brief appointments between two willing colleagues in a mutually agreed upon setting outside of school. And their goal is to establish trust between the adults, the educators and family members, who are working to ensure the student succeeds.

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PTHV advances student success and school improvement by leveraging relationships, research, and a national network of partners to advance evidence-based practices in relational home visits within a comprehensive family engagement strategy.

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P.O. Box 189084, Sacramento, CA, 95818

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PTHV is a nonprofit grassroots network that must raise its operating budget every year. Like the local home visit projects we help, our network is sustained by collaboration.

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